I’ll never forget the first time I watched Jurassic Park. While I didn’t have the privilege of attending its original theatrical run, I remember begging my...
While we often take it for granted during the rushed blur of our daily lives, a single glance up at the sky should make it pretty...
Intentionally making a “so bad it’s good” movie is a lot harder than you might initially think. There’s a fine line between accurately emulating low-brow filming...
Slasher movies are episodic by nature, with the entire genre revolving around establishing and then playing around with (and sometimes even subverting) established formulas. With that...
Fans of the first Death Stranding are still humming the game’s soundtrack to themselves nearly six years after its original release, so it makes sense that...
Some ideas are just so good that they transcend the limitations of the medium where they first appeared. The Punisher is a great example of this,...
Like many others who fell in love with film at a young age, I used to make embarrassing home movies with whatever I had lying around...
These days, Film Noir is mostly associated with cynical private detectives and obnoxious narration, but these movies are actually deeply rooted in the horrors of German...
The prevalence of live-action reboots of popular animated media has led to a misguided belief that animation is somehow a testing ground for ideas that can...
The difference between a monster and a wild animal is just a matter of perspective. Polar bears may seem cute and cuddly when seen from a...
These days, it’s hard to imagine Marvel as anything but a self-consuming ouroboros of family-friendly advertisements promoting even more ads, but in the years preceding the...
Does anyone else remember that badass Jason Voorhees design from Wildstorm’s 2007 comic-book sequel Freddy vs. Jason vs Ash? After getting a chainsaw to the face,...
The distinction between myth and history is much more recent than you might initially think. For the vast majority of our existence, humankind has operated on...
There’s no secret formula to figuring out just the right amount of friction to include in a video game. Every player has a different level of...
Whether you’re talking about zero-budget Found Footage movies or tentpole blockbuster productions, getting a feature-length film off the ground is always a herculean task. That’s why...
Liminal horror may have taken over the internet, but a lot of media within this budding genre doesn’t really know what to do after placing characters...
Aside from the obvious hype factor, movies are often marketed as being based on true stories because that makes it easier for filmmakers to place audiences...
Did you know that Psycho was the first major motion picture to feature an onscreen flushing toilet? Modern indoor plumbing had been available for centuries at...
Tales of masked killers and man-eating mutants are more associated with the world of film than literature, but if the success of horror writers like Stephen...
I’ll keep watching new Final Destination movies as long as they keep making them, but I’m personally much more supportive of heartfelt rip-offs than officially licensed...
One of my favorite hobbies back during the age of the “old” internet was spending hours searching for creepy flash games on shady websites. Free titles...
There’s a popular theory about how nightmares may have evolved as a natural form of exposure therapy where our brains simulate encounters with our deepest fears...
We’ve covered quite a few post-apocalyptic films in previous editions of Horror Adjacent, and I think there’s a simple reason for that. No matter how light-hearted...
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There’s a famous incident where television host James Lipton shocked Steven Spielberg by suggesting that the musical communication in the director’s 1977 classic Close Encounters of...
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